The American West’s Salt Lakes Are Turning to Dust
A new research and monitoring program aims to conserve threatened but overlooked saline ecosystems. ..
A new research and monitoring program aims to conserve threatened but overlooked saline ecosystems. ..
One year later, researchers are still marveling at the power of the Hunga Tonga explosion—and wondering how to monitor hundreds of other undersea volcanoes. ..
The hottest West Coast tech 16,000 years ago was a “projectile point” for hunting game. Though tiny, the artifact tells an outsize tale. ..
WIRED visited the Geological Society of America conference to learn about the untapped potential of gigantic reptiles in gaming. ..
The phenomenon threatens local drinking water, and scientists think climate change may be the culprit. ..
Whale-sized shonisaurs dominated the ocean 230 million years ago. A fossil cluster offers a fascinating glimpse at how they lived—based on where they ..
As carbon concentrations rise, conditions are becoming more like they were 3 million years ago, when the area was wetter and the rain was heavier. ..
The climate crisis may explain fights as disappearing ice fuels interspecies competition—with goats nearly always winning. ..
In the future, remote-controlled quadcopters might mean that researchers won’t have to crawl inside volcanoes to collect carbon dioxide anymore. ..
As the Supreme Court considers the fate of American wetlands, Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp offers an elegiac love letter to overlooked ecosystems. ..